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type: "Bill"
title: "Property Tax Credit - Public Safety Officers"
description: "Property Tax Credit - Public Safety Officers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 979"
citation: "Maryland HB 979 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Property", "Assessments and Taxation", "Department of", "Correctional Officers", "Emergency Medical Services", "Fire Protection", "Law Enforcement", "Property Tax", "Rescue Squads", "Sheriffs", "Tax Credits", "Volunteers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Luedtke"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-06"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/24dff851-43a4-46bf-bbe9-f032e4bc40a7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB979&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "64c1cf7c710a43e0396cd6ff419fd44ee9e19b975f4cca1f291bacfda656a924"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
---
# Maryland HB 979 (2017) — Property Tax Credit - Public Safety Officers
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0979f.pdf)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **470** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **1270** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Luedtke — primary (person)
- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-06** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-10** Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {105664/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (127-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-24** Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-27** Hearing canceled
- **2017-03-27** Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-04** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 686 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/24dff851-43a4-46bf-bbe9-f032e4bc40a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).